Scott Whiteaker, a spokesman for the campaign to stop Eyman's pernicious Initiative 1033, points out that it mirrors Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR). That measure devastated Colorado's funding for education, heath care, vaccines, and other state obligations. "The only time TABOR passed, in Colorado, the results were an absolute disaster for the state--so much so that voters suspended it in 2005," Whiteaker says. "Per capita funding for education dropped to 49th in the nation, schools had to suspend the requirement for kids to be vaccinated because the state couldn’t afford to buy vaccines, and the state’s rank of providing prenatal care dropped from 23rd to 48th* in the nation." [*Update: This originally said "28th" place, Whiteaker writes to say he made a typo. Colorado became third-to-last state in pre-natal care after TABOR passed.]

The measure's support is dropping in the polls, praise logic, but some have noted that TABOR differs from I-1033 because it was a constitutional amendment, rather than just a change of law, which Eyman's initiative would do. But, as Whiteaker notes, "A statutory law and a constitutional law aren’t enforced differently and don’t function any differently on a day-to-day basis. That difference only matters when it comes time to change the law, and if we’re already talking about and comparing how easy or hard it is to change I-1033, why pass it in the first place?"

I-1033 is losing in Washington polls, but it's also hiding on your ballot.